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ABOUT US

WALEED BIN IBRAHIM Al IBRAHIM

Chairman

Waleed bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim is a Saudi Arabian businessman, and founder and chairman of Middle East Broadcasting Center, known as MBC Group. Al Ibrahim founded MBC in London in 1991 with the entrepreneur, Saleh Kamal, launching the first independent Arabic satellite TV station. The company was established to express the views of Saudi royal family. It is part of the ARAvision.

Al Ibrahim was the 27th richest Arab in the Middle East with the wealth of US$2.9 billion in 2009. In 2016, his net worth was estimated to be US$10.9 billion

PHILIPPE GHANEM

Vice-Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Philippe Ghanem was one of the key driving forces behind the conception and creation of Project Capital Limited. He has a wealth of experience in both establishing and running successful entrepreneurial ventures in the financial services sector.

Prior to joining Project Capital Limited, Philippe was the Founder, Director and Chairman of Squared Financial Services Ltd, a fully-fledged financial brokerage firm based in Dublin, Ireland. He led the creation and development of Squared Financial as a multi-asset class e-trading platform.

Philippe brings to his current role as Vice-Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Project Capital Limited deep expertise in building sophisticated electronic trading platforms as well as strong contacts across international markets. He has extensive knowledge of banking and financial instruments such as bonds, equities, mutual funds, commodities, derivatives, and cash and treasury management. He also has experience in trading a wide range of financial instruments as well as core asset and fund management.

Philippe is a regular contributor to international and business media including CNBC, Forbes, Reuters as well as specialist trade publications.

He received a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Business Administration from the International University of Geneva in 2002.

Philippe is fluent in English, French and Arabic.

VIJAY SINGH

Chief Finance and Risk Officer

Dr. Singh has over 20 years of professional experience in the US, India, Hong Kong and the Philippines. Dr. Singh joined Project Capital Holding as Chief Risk Officer in 2010. In this role, he maintains comprehensive oversight of all risk at Project Capital Holding and its subsidiary company Project Capital Limited.

During the last ten years Dr. Singh was the Vice President of Finance and Chief Risk Officer at PPL Corp (Allentown, PA), a Fortune 300 company engaged in the generation, trading, hedging and distribution of electric power and energy products in the US and UK. While at PPL Corp, he managed a US $2 billion pension fund and led seven groups including quantitative risk modeling, risk control, market analysis, insurance, credit risk and risk systems. Prior to that, he was Vice President and Risk Control Officer at ConAgra Foods (Omaha, NE) responsible for treasury operations and the management of commodity, interest rate and currency risk on an enterprise wide basis.

Dr. Singh’s international experience also includes banking and project financing in India and Hong Kong, strategic consulting in the Philippines and as a professor of finance at leading graduate business schools in USA.

Dr. Singh has a Ph.D. in Finance with a minor in Economics from the Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio), an MBA in Finance and International Business from the Asian Institute of Management in Manila (the Philippines) and a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Economics and Mathematics from the University of New Delhi (India).